Thanks for following up on this Dave, it is really appreciated. At least I know that it's not just my KX3 now.
Cheers, Darren, G0HWW On 28/06/14 14:10, Dave wrote: > Hi Darren, and everyone else following this... > > I've found it! Very low level, but by zeroing in on 385 to 386MHz I found a > small signal that moves when I tune across 7MHz... > > At 7.000MHz there's a signal at 385.027MHz (-78dBm) which moves up in > frequency, > staying at about the same signal level, and is at -78dBm at 385.571MHz with > the > dial set to 7.010MHz. Unplugging all of the leads appears to make no > difference > to the signal level. Nor does turning off the backlight or going onto internal > batteries. > > The problem I had yesterday was that there's a lot of much louder signals > around > 385.9MHz which were masking the KX3 signal. With the dial set to 7.080MHz, > and > really zeroing in so as to exclude other signals, I found it at 389.419MHz > (-75.5dBm) but I would need to go somewhere that excluded the larger external > signals to hear it with another receiver. > > I guess that with an antenna with a bit more gain it might be stronger. I > also > had to keep resetting the display as it got hidden in much louder signals > which > did not appear to alter with VFO setting and I wasn't able to tell if they > were > from the KX3 or from external signals, of course. > > Dave (G0DJA) > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Long" <[email protected]> > To: "Dave" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 12:22 PM > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX3 - UHF emissions > > >> Hi Dave, >> >> I've have just repeated my measurements of the 7.080Mhz sprog on 398.4MHz and >> posted some screen-shots on my blog. See here: >> http://www.g0hww.net/2014/06/kx3-uhf-emissions.html >> >> Cheers, 73 >> >> Darren, G0HWW > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
